13-letter words starting with do
- don't mind me — You say 'Don't mind me' to apologize for your presence when you think that it might embarrass someone, and to tell them to carry on with what they were doing or about to do.
- donald cherry — Donald Eugene ("Don") 1936–95, U.S. jazz trumpeter.
- donation land — land given free or sold on liberal terms by a state or the federal government, especially to encourage settlement in undeveloped areas.
- donkey engine — a small auxiliary engine, such as one used for pumping water into the boilers of a steamship
- donkey jacket — A donkey jacket is a thick, warm jacket, usually dark blue with a strip across the shoulders at the back.
- donkey's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
- donnan uptake — The Donnan uptake is the uptake of an electrolyte (= a substance which electricity can pass through) as a neutral pair of ions during a sorption process.
- donor country — a country which provides aid to a developing country
- doomsday book — Domesday Book.
- doomsday cult — A doomsday cult is a religious cult whose members believe that the world is about to end.
- doppelgangers — Plural form of doppelganger.
- doppler laser — a technique for measuring the shift in frequency between the source and reflected radiation of a laser.
- doppler radar — a radar tracking system that determines the velocity of a moving object by measuring the Doppler shift of the frequency of a radar signal reflected by the object.
- doppler shift — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
- dormer window — in sloping roof
- dorothy dixer — a parliamentary question asked by a member of the government so that the minister may give a prepared answer
- dos requester — (networking) An MS-DOS client that provides transparent redirection of printing and file accesses to a network server. It handles levels 3, 4 and 5 of the Open Systems Interconnect seven layer model. A DOS requester under Novell NetWare will interface to a network card driver with an ODI interface, and will be either a single executable (netx.exe) or a set of VLMs that are loaded on demand. In the IBM/Microsoft LAN Manager/SMB world, where the name DOS redirector is more common, there will be an NDIS interface driver and a net.exe executable.
- double batten — two wooden battens screwed together for holding the edge of a drop between them.
- double boiler — a utensil consisting of two pots, one of which fits partway into the other: water is boiled in the lower pot to cook or warm food or melt a substance in the upper.
- double bounce — (of the ball in tennis, table tennis, etc) two bounces on the same side of the net before a return
- double bridle — a bridle with four reins coming from a bit with two rings on each side
- double dagger — a mark (‡) used for references, as footnotes.
- double garage — a garage that can hold two vehicles
- double magnum — Jeroboam (def 2).
- double nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
- double paddle — a paddle with a blade at each end, as that of the kayak.
- double sculls — a race for sculls rowed by two rowers, each using a pair of oars.
- double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
- double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
- double vision — diplopia.
- double whammy — twofold misfortune
- double wicket — cricket in which two wickets are used, being the usual form of the game.
- double window — a window with two panes of glass
- double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
- double-action — (of a firearm) requiring only one pull of the trigger to cock and fire it.
- double-booked — to overbook by accepting more than one reservation for the same hotel room, airplane seat, etc.
- double-bottom — tandem trailer (def 1).
- double-clutch — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
- double-decker — something with two decks, tiers, or the like, as two beds one above the other, a ship with two decks above the water line, or a bus with two decks.
- double-dipper — Informal. to earn a salary from one position while collecting a pension from the same employer or organization, especially to be a wage earner on the federal payroll while receiving a military retiree's pension.
- double-dotted — (of a note) increased to one and three quarters of its original time value by the addition of two dots
- double-double — a cup of coffee served with two helpings of cream and sugar
- double-dumped — (of a wool bale) compressed, with two bales occupying the volume-equivalent of one ordinary bale
- double-duplex — (communications) (From telegraphy) A full-duplex link with two telegraphers (a sender and a receiver) at each end, to simultaneously transmit in both directions. Compare: single-duplex.
- double-figure — double-digit.
- double-glazed — of, having, or provided with double glazing: double-glazed windows and doors.
- double-header — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
- double-minded — wavering or undecided in mind.
- double-nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
- double-ripper — bobsled (def 2).